May 14, 2015 U.S Department of Transportation Docket Operations, West Building Ground Floor Room W12

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Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Through this communication Executive Flight Services, Inc. (the Company), Operating Certificate number E07A355K, represented by Mr. Gary Veer Director of Maintenance 1600 Airport Rd. Wichita, KS 67209 petitions for exemption from §91.230 and §47.49 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations. This petition requests relief to permit temporary operation o f the Company’s U.S registered aircraft in domestic operations without the registration or airworthiness certificates on board. Section §91.203 states, in pertinent part, that no person may operate a civil aircraft unless it has within it a current and va lid airw orthiness certificate; and an effective U.S. registration certificate issued to its ow ner, or in the United States, the second duplicat e copy (pink) of the Aircraft Registration Application. Section § 47.49 states, in pertinent part, that a certi ficate of Aircraft Registration holder may request, and be issued, a temporary certificate if he has applied for a duplicate. Executive Flight Services, Inc. currently operates a 56 corporate aircraft fleet of 11 different types under both 14 CFR part 135 and part 91 subpart K for fractional ownership authorized by Certificate number E07A355K and Management Specifications E07K355K. Although the company has expended much time and effort to ensure that the required documentation is kept onboard each company aircraft, occasionally registration and/or airworthiness certificates disappear, are damaged, become illegible, or otherwise unusable. Because the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aircraft Registration Branch AFS

- 750 and local Flight Standards District Offices (FSDO) are open only Monday through Friday during business hours, and are closed during Federally recognized holidays, any missing o r dam aged certificate of registration or airworthiness would create unnecessary delays and disruption of revenu e generating service. A loss or damage to a certificate of registration or airw orthiness during normal working hours on weekdays can also be disrup tive to revenue generating service due to the requirement of the application and fee having to be submitted to the Aircraft Registration Branch prior to issuing a tem porary registration via fax, and any damaged or missing airw orthiness certificate would have to be replace prior to revenu e operations. Moreover, an exemption similar to this petition has been granted, amended, and extended, for many air carriers operating aircraft within the 48 contiguous United States. These exemptions have established an equivalent level of safety through the process and procedures outlined in the exemptions. (Ref. Granted Exempt ion No. 8662D Regulatory Docket No. FAA

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- 22733) Without relief, under current FARs a lost, damaged or otherwise unusable certificate of registration or airw orthiness would r esult in undue financial burden (loss of revenue) to the company and our custo mers who depend on the company to transport them to business locations through the 48 contiguous United States.Granting this exemption would be in the public interest because the number of delays and cancellations due to missing or dama ged certificate of registration or airw orthiness w ould be greatly reduced allow the company to better serve our customers and promote business a s a result. Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter, if you have any questions or comments you can reach m e at phone number and address listed below

. Sincerely, Gary Veer Director of Maintenance Executive Flight Services, Inc. 1600 Airport Road Wichita, KS 67209 316

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